As a theme of my diploma thesis I have choosen an Artis´t book.I have choosen this subject becouse of different reasons. One of these is that this vast theme has not properly inguired yet. My work is devided into three parts. Theoretical, applied and practical. In the first part I try to define the vast phenomenon of artis´t book itself. I have choosen the art-historical point of view. Furthermore I wrote abaut how this subject has developed in course of time. I have faund some key artists for whome the artist book was and is still the main subject. In the applied part of my diploma thesis I look at the difficulties which could occured in the course of the making this kind of book. So I write abaut graphic technics and so on. The third part-actually the main part is the object of artis´t book itself. I have choosen poems inspired by landscape, which I accompained by abstract motives inspired by poems. The photographical document of my work is in theoretcal part as a suplement.

This master thesis consists of two main parts: the theoretical and the practical one. The theoretical part is focused mainly on artist book, its history and some authors, who worked in this sphere. It peripheraly deals with invention of paper and paper development history. In the practical part, the motivation sources influencing processing of this topic and technological procedure during artist book production are explained.